“BP, the oil company responsible for a broken deep water well that has been gushing oil unabated since April 22, has been dumping massive amounts of the [Corexit] chemical stock…[T]he U.S. [EPA] retracted its allowance and ordered BP to stop dumping..by Sunday May 23. BP ignored the order.

..”They’ve turned a two-dimensional problem of oil sitting on the surface to a three-dimensional problem of oil bound with COREXIT creating substances we know very little about..transforming in the environment through bacterial processes, creating other chemicals in the environment we know absolutely nothing about. It’s going to be impacting every marine organism including ourselves.

…the stuff is toxic…there are a lot of chemical effects that are not being measured by the EPA tests.

[Corexit] basically disrupts the natural ability of oil to bond with itself. Oil, bilipid layers next to each other, are the very basis of life. Each of us is made of cells –those cells are nothing more than an oil layer surrounding our DNA, surrounding our proteins..and all the other molecules ‘talking’ to each other.

You put in a chemical that..disrupts that biological structure..you are putting yourself at risk from umpteen effects…

..We are producing an experiment in the Gulf the likes of which no one has ever seen, and the top scientists admit that.”

“In addition to London-based BP, the owner of the well, defendants in the lawsuit include units of Vernier, Switzerland-based Transocean Ltd., which owned the rig, Anadarko PetroleumCorp. and MOEX Offshore 2007 LLC, part owners of the well.Anadarko is based in The Woodlands, Texas. Mitsui & co. owns 70 percent of Mitsui Oil Exploration co., which holds 10 percent of the field where the Macondo well is located through its U.S.subsidiary MOEX Offshore, according to the Mitsui Oil website.” http://www.goesfast.com/bp-falls-most-in-four-months-after-u-s-files-oil-spill-lawsuit/

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BP, 65% owner of the Macondo Project

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Anadarko Petroleum Corp, 25% owner:

CEO – James T. Hackett, Chairman of the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas, director of Halliburton

Oil and Katrina – “We [Louisiana] have got 4,000 rigs in the Gulf–compared to 100 rigs in the rest of the Gulf. There are 4,100 rigs approximately in the entire Gulf of Mexico; Louisiana has 4,000. We’re not getting the money from the off shore drilling…. I get very aggravated with people thinking that FEMA messed up [after Katrina]. Or that it was a mistake. It was no mistake. This was a plan, they followed it to perfection..” http://www.consciousbeingalliance.com/2007/12/katrina-scattered-people-instead-of-bombs

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Nalco, the National Aluminate Company, is the maker of the Corexit dispersants.

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[answers.com]

“Nalco Holding Company is the world leader in water treatment chemicals and services…The merger that formed National Aluminate Corporation (as Nalco was first known) came as the result of a natural synergy between Chicago Chemical Company and Aluminum Sales Corporation….By 1929 National Aluminate Corporation had founded Visco Products Company to manufacture chemicals used in drilling oil wells. This company established National Aluminate within the oil industry. National Aluminate’s sales for the year 1929 totaled more than $1 million. The following year National Aluminate acquired New York-based Paige-Jones Chemical Company, thereby gaining equipment and rights for the supply of water-treatment chemicals in a convenient-to-use ball-briquette form. In 1933 Emmett J. Culligan, then a chemist at National Aluminate, persuaded Herbert Kern to allow the company to produce a water softening, gel-type chemical zeolite….

…. in December 1999 Nalco was acquired by the French utility company Suez Lyonnaise des Eaux for $4.1 billion in cash plus the assumption of about $400 million in debt. Suez Lyonnaise had its own water-treatment unit called Aquazur and had earlier in 1999 acquired the Pittsburgh-based water-treatment company Calgon Corporation for $425 million ….Under the SuezLyonnaise umbrella in 2000, Nalco, Aquazur, and Calgon were integrated under the Nalco Chemical Company name. The firm remained headquartered in Naperville, Illinois…. In 2001 Suez created a global brand for all of its water-related companies, Ondeo, leading to a name change for Nalco to Ondeo Nalco. That same year, Ondeo Nalco bought out its partner in the Nalco/Exxon Energy Chemicals venture, which had grown into a $500-million-a-year business. This company thus became a wholly owned subsidiary of Ondeo Nalco, operating under a new name, Ondeo Nalco Energy Services, L.P. Revenues at Ondeo Nalco grew to $2.7 billion by 2002…. Suez Lyonnaise, in the meantime, had become saddled with a debilitating debt load and began shedding assets. A key component of Suez’s debt-reduction drive was the November 2003 sale of Ondeo Nalco to a consortium of three U.S. private-equity firms, Apollo Management, the Blackstone Group, and GoldmanSachs Capital Partners, for $4.35 billion. Upon completion of this leveraged buyout, the company dropped “Ondeo” from its name and became simply Nalco Company. Nalco’s new owners hired William H. Joyce as the new chairman and CEO. Joyce was spirited away from Hercules, where he had served as chairman and CEO since 2001. He had previously spent more than 40 years at Union Carbide, rising ultimately to chairman and CEO.

…. in November 2004, the investor group took the company public as Nalco Holding Company… Nalco stock thus returned to trading on the New York Stock Exchange.. and thereby had recovered the original cash they had invested while still holding a 64 percent stake in Nalco….Through a series of secondary offerings culminating in February 2007, Apollo, Blackstone, and Goldman Sachs Capital Partners sold off their remaining shares in Nalco Holding. Analysts estimated that the private equity firms garnered a tidy profit of $1.68 billion on their original $992 million investment. Nalco, meantime, continued to focus on organic growth and was particularly targeting such emerging markets as Russia, China, and India…” http://www.answers.com/topic/nalco-holding-company

>>incidental to this blog, Moffett was a New Orleans Publc Library Commissioner at the time some highly questionable ‘evidence’ showed up in the NOPL concerning the death of Dr. Mary Sherman, a plotter in the JFK assassination. Information regarding the book ‘Dr. Mary’s Monkey’ and its author Ed Haslam is at www.polioforever.wordpress.com/dr-marys-monkey/

GDFSuez Energy International: “The Belgium-based unit has operations in 100 countries in Asia, Europe, the Middle East, North America, and South America…. Suez was (and remains, through GDF Suez) one of the oldest continuously existing multinational corporations in the world” http://www.answers.com/topic/suez-2

SuezLyonnaise: “Suez Lyonnaise des Eaux has transformed itself into one of the world’s leading multi-utility powerhouses, offering private water, gas, electricity and waste-management services in more than 120 countries….Compagnie Universelle du Canal Maritime de Suez renamed itself Compagnie Financière de Suez in 1958 and began a new life as one of France’s major financial powers” http://www.answers.com/topic/suez-lyonnaise-des-eaux

“Suez Lyonnaise Chairman Gerard Mestrallet said Monday that the company is keenly eyeing other opportunities in the rapidly changing U.S. water sector. The French company also holds a 28 percent stake in United Water Resources of Harrington Park, the former Hackensack Water Co., and has joined with United Water to operate several major municipal water systems around the country. “We want to develop our presence in the United States with local partners and teams,” Mestrallet said….Even after the U.S. purchases, energy remains Suez Lyonnaise’s core business, with water second and waste services third…[As] a world leader in private infrastructure services and Nalco Chemical Company (NYSE: NLC), the world’s largest provider of water treatment services and products, announced a definitive agreement for Nalco to be acquired by Suez Lyonnaise des Eaux in an all-cash transaction of approximately $4.1 billion, or $53 per share.” http://www.waterindustry.org/New%20Projects/lyonnaise-acquires.htm

LeonBlack is a close friend and associate of MichaelMilken, the ‘junk bond king’ of the 1980s who went to jail in 1990 http://www.deepcapture.com/tag/leon-black/ Milken “emerged from prison as a legitimate entrepreneur… He co-founded a company called Education Entertainment Network, that produces business videos and CD/ROMs. In 1996, he and Larry Ellison [of Oracle] founded Knowledge Universe, a company dealing in a diverse variety of goods and services, including day care, executive education, corporate training, and toys.” http://www.answers.com/topic/michael-milken Inadmissable ‘hearsay’ evidence from a 1985 trial suggests Milken conspired with KKR’s Ted Ammon –Ammon was murdered on October 20, 2001. http://cases.justia.com/us-court-of-appeals/F2/999/27/308401/ Ted Ammon’s murder is suspiciously linked to the 2001 anthrax attack, by timing and business associations. Ammon could have been called the ‘junk mail king’. In Milken’s 1990 trial, Ammon testified against him. http://thirdring.wordpress.com/junk-mail-murder/

GoldmanSachs, of course, parses its executives out to chair the international NGO environmental organizations. Read The Debt-for-Nature Scheme.

PeterD.Sutherland, former non-executive Chairman of (UK subsidiary) GoldmanSachsInt’l ” in early 2010 finished a 13-year stint as chairman of BP, Europe’s largest oil company. At one point during his tenure, the company was valued on the stock market at £236 billion” http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Sutherland “What do British Petroleum, Goldman Sachs, and the Inter-Alpha Group of Banks have in common? For one thing, they are tools of the British Empire, dedicated to destroying the United States and all vestiges of national sovereignty on the planet. For another, they are all criminal enterprises, which corrupt everything they touch. And third, they are all polluters on a massive scale: BP does it with oil, while Goldman Sachs and the Inter-Alpha Group do it with derivatives and other forms of casino finance. In that regard, we repeat something that we have reported before: they all come together in the form of Sir Peter Sutherland..” http://www.larouchepac.com/node/14786 British Petroleum – Amoco – ARCO http://www.corporations.org/bp-amoco/

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Blackstone personnel were intimate stakeholders in the 2001 Anthrax Attack. www.thirdring.wordpress.com More news about following-the-money is coming up….

PeterSeligmann of ConservationInternational [June 14, 2010] “The Gulf oil spill is a tragedy. It is a stark reminder that our planet’s ocean and shorelines are extremely vulnerable…Our love affair with cars and cheap gas is responsible… Our government allowed exploration at depths that were too deep, where we did not have the technical and engineering capacity to stop blow outs… While Conservation international (CI) does not work directly in the Gulf region, we are monitoring the situation constantly and providing input and guidance..” http://www.conservation.org/newsroom/pressreleases/Pages/gulf_oil_spill.aspx

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MarkTercek of The NatureConservancy [June 15, 2010] “”The U.S. must seize this moment to enact solutions that can protect the Gulf of Mexico, its communities and its natural resources – and put the U.S. on a sustainable course to a clean energy future including limits on carbon emissions. The time to act is now.” http://www.nature.org/pressroom/press/press4550.html

“The InternationalUnionforConservationofNature — the world’s largest environmental network — has called for a global moratorium on oil and gas drilling in environmentally sensitive deepwater and polar areas.’ The technology to minimize the risks and impacts of catastrophes such as the Deepwater Horizon oil spill is obviously lacking at present,’ said IUCN Director General JuliaMarton–Lefevre.” [see youtube] http://www.bradenton.com/2010/06/29/2396819/oil-spill-causes-international.html

“Thomas Gold..was a brilliant professor of astronomy at Cornell University. ..His most controversial idea was among his last, and geologists and petroleum experts around the world still rage against Gold for suggesting they were dead wrong in their understanding of how oil and gas are formed in the Earth’s crust….there is increasing evidence [in 2005] that he may have been on to something…

Gold argued that all hydrocarbons are formed in the intense pressure and high heat near the Earth’s mantle, around 100 miles under the ground…

Oil and gas fields are continually replenished by hydrocarbons manufactured far below the Earth, he argued. So thereisnofuelcrisis. As long as the Earth grinds along on its orbit around the sun, hydrocarbons will continue to be produced and we can all roll along with no fear of running out of gas.

SyntheticBiology (creating more demand?): “Prof. [Ananda M.] Chakrabarty genetically engineereda new species of Pseudomonas bacteria (“the oil-eating bacteria”) in 1971 while working for the Research & Development Center at General Electric Company in Schenectedy, New York. At the time, four known species of oil-metabolizing bacteria were known to exist, but when introduced into an oil spill, competed with each other, limiting the amount of crude oil that they degraded. The genes necessary to degrade oil were carried on plasmids, which could be transferred among species. By irradiating the transformed organism with UV light after plasmid transfer, Prof. Chakrabarty discovered a method for genetic cross-linking that fixed all four plasmid genes in place and produced a new, stable, bacteria species (now called pseudomonas putida) capable of consuming oil one or two orders of magnitude faster than the previous four strains of oil-eating microbes. The new microbe, which Chakrabarty called “multi-plasmid hydrocarbon-degrading Pseudomonas,” could digest about two-thirds of the hydrocarbons that would be found in a typical oil spill….The “oil-eating bacteria” has been used to clean up many toxic oil spills, including the one caused by the Exxon Valdez disaster.” http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ananda_Mohan_Chakrabarty

“Two dispersants have been used on the Gulf spill according to the federal spill website at http://www.deepwaterhorizonresponse.com/go/site/2931/ They are discussed below, with a focus on the specific chemical ingredients known to date. These products share most ingredients in common. Unfortunately, information on the breakdown and interaction byproducts of these chemicals in water and crude oil have not been disclosed.

These additional chemicals may have similar toxic properties, or may vary from the original chemicals that were applied to crude oil…[I]t is not possible to determine the degree to which it captures the range of toxic effects that may occur.

According to these sources, the Corexit 9527A ingredients are:

2-butoxyethanol

propylene glycol

organic sulfonic acid salts

Propylene glycol is in the general family of glycol ethers and is used…as a solvent, lubricant, veterinary medicine, antimicrobial, preservative, stabilizer, and as an emollient…

It is an alternative to ethylene glycol in some applications, including anti-freeze.

…It has been licensed for use as a pesticide. It is produced by Dow, Huntsman International, Arch Chemicals, and Lyondell Chemical in the United States and sold in multiple grades, with the largest reported use being for polyester resins… The 8 hour..average workplace exposure limit is 50 ppm.

[toxic effects observed by study are detailed on the webpage]

Propylene glycol does not have a high apparent acute toxicity for everyone, but some people are very sensitive to it. The multiple systems where damage or disruption has been reported in animal studies and in high exposure incidents in people suggest that care must be taken with this chemical. CDC’s ‘minimal risk level’ is 9 parts per billion in air for moderate term exposures (15-364 days). This low MRL suggests that precautions against exposure are appropriate.

Dispersants issue An important characteristic of propylene glycol is its ability to increasepenetration of some chemicals through the skin…increas[ing] the dose of those chemicals inside the body, thereby increasing their toxic effects..

2-BE

Based on scientific information available primarily from animal studies designed to predict human health effects, 2-BE may cause respiratory, blood cell, reproductive, and developmental damage. There is strong evidence that 2-BE can damge the respiratory system, including causing asthma attacks and increasing the symptoms and severity of many other respiratory diseases. Red blood cells are also a target of 2-BE’s toxic effects...